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21) Still Alice
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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Fifty-year-old Alice Howland, a Harvard professor of cognitive psychology, is at the top of her game. Her kids are grown, her marriage secure, her career on fire, when after mere months of forgetfulness she finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of early onset Alzheimer's disease. With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self slips away. Without memory or hope, she is forced...
22) Icy Sparks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Rural Kentucky in the 1950's is not an easy place to grow up, and it's especially hard for ten-year-old Icy Sparks, an orphan who lives with her grandparents. Life becomes even more difficult when she develops Tourette's syndrome. Narrated by a now-grown Icy, this novel offers warmth and humor as it recounts a young girl's painful and poignant journey to womanhood.
23) Last Christmas
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Kate is a young woman who faces an endless streak of bad luck and poor decision-making. Working as an elf in a year round Christmas store is not good for the wannabe singer. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true.
24) First Love
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Axi Moore is a "good girl": she studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that what she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can confide in is her best friend, Robinson--who she also happens to be madly in love. When Axi impulsively invites Robinson to come with her on an unplanned cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree...
25) If You Knew Her
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"A woman in a coma. The man who could save her life-if only he could speak. When young, beautiful Cassie Jensen arrives unconscious to the intensive care ward at St. Catherines hospital after being struck in a hit-and-run while out walking her dog, chief nurse Alice Marlowe thinks she looks familiar. She starts digging deeper into Cassies relationships, only to discover something about her patient that shed been keeping secret from everyone, including...
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The Delaney family love one another dearly - it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other. If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They're killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable....
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The author, a brain scientist, describes her experience after a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain causing a massive stroke, but due to her own knowledge and previous training, with the support of her mother, was able to completely repair her mind over an eight year period.
28) Inside
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Follows four characters with entwining lives: Grace, a devoted therapist in Montreal; a man who encounters Grace after his attempt to hanging himself fails; Mitch, Grace's ex-husband and therapist, who travels to a struggling native community in the Arctic; and Grace's troubled teenage patient, Annie, who runs away to New York.
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A new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychoanalyst Doidge traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed--people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, blind people who learn to see, learning...
30) Safe haven
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
32) Life Expectancy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
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Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy--a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between. Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside....
33) Shutter Island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
35) The matchmaker
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Storied matchmaker and Nantucket resident Dabney Kimball has her own life and match turned upside down when her true love of twenty-seven years prior returns to the island. "48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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This 1962 novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, and depicts the chaos when McMurphy, a rebellious prison inmate who has faked insanity in order to finish his sentence in the hospital, incites the other patients to disobey the feared Nurse Ratched. An escalating series of incidents leads to a tragic conclusion.
37) Bones to Ashes
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 10
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Reichs--bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the television hit "Bones," based on her Temperance Brennan books--delivers more awe-inspiring science and surprising twists in this gripping, sophisticated thriller.
40) Still Alice
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Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.